SimTools v3 Public Beta

yobuddy · Mar 3, 2025

I have to switch between two profiles in Elite Dangerous, one for spaceship and one for the planet rover.

Is there an easier way to swap them than jumping out of the game, shutting down telemetry and manually doing it?

I'm thinking like a hot key or whatnot?
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Some game don't report to SimTools what vehicle you using so auto profiling can not be used. But you can tab out of the game and select the profile you want and hop back in without shutting down telemetry or stopping the game. Eventually I want a v3 version of the remote profiler like we have for v2, but I just have not had time for this addon yet.

yobuddy · Mar 3, 2025

Or We would like to have a function where COM ports such as 7, 8, and 9, which are not used in (A) Axis Assignments, can be assigned to (B) Axis Assignments. This would make it a perfect motion software. Thank you.
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I'm not sure I understand, as we can already do this by setting up another interface to use the unused comport. (as we have 6 interfaces we can use in v3)

jonston5 · Mar 5, 2025

Hi Team,

I have a issue with a Prosimu P5MP platform/Iracing and simtools 3

Seems iracing sometimes does not give out the telemetry data so there is no movement, no third party apps and hardware works, im thinking it’s a file lock issue? I restarted the machine, made sure simhub and SRS was closed started iracing first and then launched the other programs and I could not get it to work. When it works it works great, just sometimes it doesn’t.

Has anyone seen this error before? Maybe I should not autoload simtools as well to make sure there is no file locks?

Jon

Blekkulf · Mar 8, 2025

Hello,
After i got a new pc i cant get vibe (or any other) inputs to work. trying to capture hi/low values for calibrating my new sims, but its always at 0. Tried with different games, read on the forum and manual but i cant find anyting that will help. I start the games by double clicking them in sim tools, and it show "Stop", so i guess that the app know they are running. Also did the interface setup. The plugins are up-to date.

VFX Pro · Mar 9, 2025

If I'm using Simtool 3 with LMU, and I have a ProSimu P7MP, do I need to use roll rate, pitch rate, yaw rate?

It's not even clear what units are being used or if I should change them... I can't get kerbs details rapidly enough...

VFX Pro · Mar 9, 2025

jonston5 said: ↑

Hi Team,

I have a issue with a Prosimu P5MP platform/Iracing and simtools 3

Seems iracing sometimes does not give out the telemetry data so there is no movement, no third party apps and hardware works, im thinking it’s a file lock issue? I restarted the machine, made sure simhub and SRS was closed started iracing first and then launched the other programs and I could not get it to work. When it works it works great, just sometimes it doesn’t.

Has anyone seen this error before? Maybe I should not autoload simtools as well to make sure there is no file locks?

Jon
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I have the same issue with ProSimu P7MP.

In order to help with this iRacing issue (don't have it with LMU)...
1. Start SimTools.
2. Do not start Simhub, SRS, etc...
3. Start iRacing.
4. When you are on track, ALT-TAB
5. Then start SimHub, and other sim software.

Pietbrok85 · Mar 11, 2025

Dear Flight SimTools V3 Users, asking for your expertise. SimTools V3, 6DOF Hexapod, FlightSimulator 40th anyversity (2022). 2x Arduino Uno R3, SMC Utils V1.0 Rotary actuators
Testing within SimTools V3 (Virtual) all looks al right, when controlled by Flightsim 2024 movements are not okay. E.g. Pitch is just the otherway around (Also the Virtual picture is showing pitch just the wrong way around). I was expecting when all tests within SimTools 2024 (including the Virtual presentation) is okay then the controlling by Flightsim2024 must be also okay? I add couple of screen shots, for information. Also "Crank Angles" is me not clear what to enter there (left all default).
Thanks for suggestions! Kind regards, Piet

Blekkulf · Mar 11, 2025

Blekkulf said: ↑

Hello,
After i got a new pc i cant get vibe (or any other) inputs to work. trying to capture hi/low values for calibrating my new sims, but its always at 0. Tried with different games, read on the forum and manual but i cant find anyting that will help. I start the games by double clicking them in sim tools, and it show "Stop", so i guess that the app know they are running. Also did the interface setup. The plugins are up-to date.
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Update; I downloaded the plugin for the old simtools, and it works fine. So its something between simtools v3 and game.

yobuddy · Mar 12, 2025

Hi @Pietbrok85,

Also "Crank Angles" is me not clear what to enter there (left all default).
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Crank angles are the direction the motors are pointing on the base frame. By default they all sit 60 deg from each other like in the pic below.

I can help you with these settings, if you can show me a pic of your simulators base?
If your motors are pointing in a triangle, then you probably want settings like this.

(BTW - By looking at the virtual output, you can see the crank angles change position when adjusting the crank angle values.)

Next, please adjust your Axis Limiting so all axis are using the same length. (as the math expects all axis to be the same length) I suggest setting them all to 90% if you need to use axis limiting (and you will have a 5% buffer on each end)

There may be a couple of other things to look at, but lets fix these settings and we can work from there buddy.
Chat soon!
yobuddy

yobuddy · Mar 12, 2025

I have a issue with a Prosimu P5MP platform/Iracing and simtools 3
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This is a known bug introduced in IRacing a wile back. (It's basically only a problem when more than one app is trying to get data from the game at the same time.)

Hello,
After i got a new pc i cant get vibe (or any other) inputs to work. trying to capture hi/low values for calibrating my new sims, but its always at 0. Tried with different games, read on the forum and manual but i cant find anyting that will help. I start the games by double clicking them in sim tools, and it show "Stop", so i guess that the app know they are running. Also did the interface setup. The plugins are up-to date.
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May I see your vibe interface settings? And what game are you using for testing buddy?

yobuddy · Mar 14, 2025

Understanding the crank angles now much better and have adjusted them using the virtual option as check.
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Be sure to update your number again, as they are still not quite right (try these)
(Thou your motors point to the inside of the sim not out, so you may want to add 180 to all of the numbers.)
Either way, you should only have 3 different numbers here total. (as you have your motors laid out in a triangle in the pic above)

I have put the min/max limits on 90%, Axis 1 and Axis 6 i have limited to 70% because those are both channel 3 on my 2 arduino uno's i have in use. Channel 3 seems to have a wider displacement than channels 1 and 2 on the arduino's.
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You could always use 3 Arduino's and only use 2 channels on each Arduino.

My main problem now is getting the flightsimulator2024 going via plugin manager, when double clicking the white arrow i get an error message "unhandled exception has occured" etc.. (see screenshot)
The strange thing is it worked before! But by troubleshooting my pitch problem i removed the plugin and re-installed it again (tried many things, reloaded flightsim2024 and reloaded SimTools V3)
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Make a shortcut for the game on your desktop, and then drag drop it onto the game plugins banner in SimTools v3. This will update the launch path for the game, maybe you installed a different version of the game, and its still trying to launch the old one?

Lastly, have you gone into interface setup and verified that the output axis order is correct?
Where axis1 is the front right and it goes clockwise from there. With axis2 being on the right the right, and axis3 is the back right and so on...

Please let me know how it goes.
yobuddy

Pietbrok85 · Mar 14, 2025

yobuddy said: ↑

Be sure to update your number again, as they are still not quite right (try these)
(Thou your motors point to the inside of the sim not out, so you may want to add 180 to all of the numbers.)
Either way, you should only have 3 different numbers here total. (as you have your motors laid out in a triangle in the pic above)
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You could always use 3 Arduino's and only use 2 channels on each Arduino.

Make a shortcut for the game on your desktop, and then drag drop it onto the game plugins banner in SimTools v3. This will update the launch path for the game, maybe you installed a different version of the game, and its still trying to launch the old one?

Lastly, have you gone into interface setup and verified that the output axis order is correct?
Where axis1 is the front right and it goes clockwise from there. With axis2 being on the right the right, and axis3 is the back right and so on...

Please let me know how it goes.
yobuddy
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Hello @yobuddy,

Thanks for your help! For me all looks all right now (not yet perfect but workable).

1) By dragging the shortcut into the banner it worked, flightsimulator programm is starting now.

2) I have entered your advised values for crank angles, now my original problem (pitching down stead pitching up and visa versa seems to be solved with this action). Didn,t try the 180 degrees extra because it seems all right now.

Question for now is, how to give the good assignment for all axis (right now i have them all on 50% and that seems to work, screenshot see below) but maybe i have to put something in vertically. System what to enter there is not clear to me. Thx for any advice on this.

Kind regards, Piet

Vu Hoang Dao · Mar 17, 2025

Hello, I have a FPS drop problem with SimTools V3 when playing ETS2. I play ETS2 at 12288x2160 resolution and get ~42FPS but when I open SimTool v3 it drops to ~20FPS (just open the application without turning on motion). I tried with SimTools v2 and it doesn't happen like that, I really hope to get help, sorry if my English is hard to understand with google translate

yobuddy · Mar 18, 2025

Hello, I have a FPS drop problem with SimTools V3 when playing ETS2. I play ETS2 at 12288x2160 resolution and get ~42FPS but when I open SimTool v3 it drops to ~20FPS (just open the application without turning on motion). I tried with SimTools v2 and it doesn't happen like that, I really hope to get help, sorry if my English is hard to understand with google translate
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All I can think of is antivirus? As the plugins are the same between versions. Maybe try running SimTools as admin for a test to see what happens.

yobuddy · Mar 18, 2025

Question for now is, how to give the good assignment for all axis (right now i have them all on 50% and that seems to work, screenshot see below) but maybe i have to put something in vertically. System what to enter there is not clear to me. Thx for any advice on this.
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You can adjust the settings to your liking, but you need to use the Virtual plugin so you can see when the sim is out of range. You want settings that are impossible for the sim to go out of range. To much yaw can cause the sim to go out or range easier that other dof's. so I would lower yaw a bit, and increase surge and sway for a racing games anyway.

If you do not go out of range with the settings you have now. I would give them a go first to see what you may want to change.
Take care,
yobuddy

Vu Hoang Dao · Mar 19, 2025

yobuddy said: ↑

All I can think of is antivirus? As the plugins are the same between versions. Maybe try running SimTools as admin for a test to see what happens.
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I tried it but it didn't work. I don't use antivirus only windows defender also tried turning it off but it didn't change anything. When me use simtools v2.6 then the FPS drop is gone

Pietbrok85 · Mar 22, 2025

yobuddy said: ↑

You can adjust the settings to your liking, but you need to use the Virtual plugin so you can see when the sim is out of range. You want settings that are impossible for the sim to go out of range. To much yaw can cause the sim to go out or range easier that other dof's. so I would lower yaw a bit, and increase surge and sway for a racing games anyway.

If you do not go out of range with the settings you have now. I would give them a go first to see what you may want to change.
Take care,
yobuddy
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All good advices Yobuddy, i go test it all ones the sim is ready. Thank you very much Sir!

John Murphy · Mar 25, 2025

I havnt used my computer in a few weeks and tonight when I tried to start everything up simtools 3 would not recognize that any of my games are running. Tried 3 different ones and all had the same behavior. Wouldnt recognize the game was running and double clicking on the play button in the simtools interface did nothing. Any ideas what might have changed or how I trouble shoot?

yobuddy · Mar 25, 2025

I havnt used my computer in a few weeks and tonight when I tried to start everything up simtools 3 would not recognize that any of my games are running. Tried 3 different ones and all had the same behavior. Wouldnt recognize the game was running and double clicking on the play button in the simtools interface did nothing. Any ideas what might have changed or how I trouble shoot?
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The first thing to check is your interface settings. Please go to the interface setup page and click 'Test Settings' and see if your interface settings are working. Next if you want the games to be auto detected, please check the Options page to make sure Auto Detect Running Games is checked.
Please let me know how it goes.
yobuddy

John Murphy · Mar 25, 2025

I verified that "test settings" still controls the rig - it does - and I verified the auto detect is checked in options - it is.

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